Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[garbon]

Way of life is good.

I think the whole focus thing is a lame piece of chrome.

edit: Actually I should revise. The focus thing is most uninteresting but you have to participate in it as otherwise you are at a disadvantage. The seduction stuff is also very tedious. I wish there was an option to say, guess what I don't care who is cheating on whom!

[dps]

Way of life is good.

I think the whole focus thing is a lame piece of chrome.

edit: Actually I should revise. The focus thing is most uninteresting but you have to participate in it as otherwise you are at a disadvantage. The seduction stuff is also very tedious. I wish there was an option to say, guess what I don't care who is cheating on whom!

I think the focus system is a good idea, but it needs to be implemented better.  As it stands, I think it's too gamey and exploitative.  But unlike some of the other things that can be exploited, as you say you pretty much have to game the focus system, because otherwise you're at too big a disadvantage.

[Sophie Scholl]

I'm still waiting for them to go forward in history with CKII.  I'd love to play during the Wars of the Roses.  Alas, we just keep going back in time or adding a new bell and/or whistle.

[Jacob]

I think the focus system is a good idea, but it needs to be implemented better.  As it stands, I think it's too gamey and exploitative.  But unlike some of the other things that can be exploited, as you say you pretty much have to game the focus system, because otherwise you're at too big a disadvantage.

Can't you just switch it off?

[Martinus]

Well, CK2 is (largely) a single player sandbox game. So, if you find some feature exploitative, just don't exploit it. 

What focus does well is that it gives you more things to do, but keeps you from being able to do everything at the same time. Personally, I like playing CK2 in a roleplay heavy way, and only switch focus when there is a very good reason for my character to basically reorient his or her life.

[Martinus]

By the way, the new instalment of "CK2 forum has the best thread titles":

Ragnarr Lodbrok's secret male lover... And naughty Guardians.
How to Kill Myself
Whats the best way to eradicate a culture or an ethnic group?
When 7 year old kids start having their own kids...
Why am I suddenly Catholic?
Why are smartest people always Muslim or Hindu?

Incidentally, the "naughty Guardian" in question became the lover of and gave the Lustful trait to a 10 year old boy under his care. 

[Razgovory]

Man, some people get all bent out of shape over violence in Video games.  In Paradox games, I've committed genocide, raped women, engaged in the slave trade, murdered children, started wars of aggression, launched Jihad, nuked cities and helped the Nazis win the war.  Not only did I do that in the game, but was rewarded for it.

[garbon]

I think the focus system is a good idea, but it needs to be implemented better.  As it stands, I think it's too gamey and exploitative.  But unlike some of the other things that can be exploited, as you say you pretty much have to game the focus system, because otherwise you're at too big a disadvantage.

Can't you just switch it off?

Well yes you can turn the dlc off.

[garbon]

I'm still waiting for them to go forward in history with CKII.  I'd love to play during the Wars of the Roses.  Alas, we just keep going back in time or adding a new bell and/or whistle.

Well I would stop waiting. I don't think they are likely to put resources there as most players choose earlier starts rather than later ones.

[Razgovory]

Doesn't the War of the Roses occur after the end date?

[garbon]

Yes and I don't see them extending for it.

[jimmy olsen]

They could probably extend the game until 1648 if they wanted to.

[Razgovory]

They could probably extend the game until 1648 if they wanted to.

System sorts of breaks down with colonization.  There is already ahistorical vikings in Iceland.

[jimmy olsen]

RIP King Cyenwulf II "the Whisperer" of Wessex.

Possessed by Satan as a young man, Cyenwulf was cursed with Lycanthropy. Every full moon he would terrorize his subjects, transforming into a bestial wolf man and rampaging across the hills and vales of southern England, tearing apart anything living unfortunate enough to cross his path. Every month he would wake covered in blood, feeling terrible guilt for what, he knew not.

Perhaps sensing his guilt, Jesus began speaking to Cyenwulf, calling on him to repent his evil ways. Thus, when a powerful old priest came before him to cast out his demons, Cyenwulf submitted to the ordeal and with a blast of holy power was purified.

Reborn in Christ, Cyenwulf vowed to redeem himself in the eyes of the church and of God. He crushed the Cathars of Essex and the Lollards of Wales in a series of holy wars and by the time of his death at the age of 70 in 844, surrounded by beloved family and friends, he had united 40% of England and 50% of Wales under his banner.

============

English early medieval history would have been a lot more interesting if we had to learn about this guy instead of Alfred burning a peasant's cakes.

[jimmy olsen]

101 years in, I've crowned myself the king of England.